- The vast bulk of my massive Web presence (over 485 pages) had been hosted by AT&T's WorldNet service since 30 May 1996; they dropped WorldNet effective
31 Mar 2010 and I have been scrambling to transfer everything. Everything's saved but all the links have to be changed, mostly by hand.
See my
sbiii.com Transfer Page for any updates on this tedious process.

ADDITIONAL APOCRYPHA

BW-PRR DD5 2-B+B-2 Electric Motor -
The one-off Pennsy DD2 was intended as a successor to the GG1, easier to manufacture and with slightly more power but slightly less tractive effort, but was never
duplicated. The Berlinerwerke's George Ersatz thought Pennsy management might go for a scaled-down GG1-cum-DD2 with the greatest possible commonality of parts with
the GG1 so he had brother Ira lay out a GG1 with one less driving axle per engine axle. Inasmuch as the BW's DD3 and
DD4 were already on the books, class DD5 was assigned:
(10 Jun 2017)

Tractive effort was excellent and acceleration far above that of the GG1 but electrification west of Harrisburg never came about, passenger ridership declined markedly,
and excess GG1s were available all over the Northeast Corridor, so this project was quietly shelved.

BW-ALCo PABC-III -
What with all the variations on the ALCo-GE-BW FPA-1/PFA-1/etc. on the BW Apocryoha Page 13, none really suited me and so I checked out the BW
files and there it was, the three-unit PABC-III:
(12 Jun 2017)

Now, THAT's more like it. It never fails; the BW files always manage to disgorge just exactly what I am looking for (sooner or later).

BW-ALCo PFA-1 -
It occurred to me that we never actually saw the real PFA-1, only a model and words! Will the real PFA-1 please stand up? Accordingly, from deep within
the voluminous BW files, here it is:
(12 Jun 2017)

The original DL-series did not include a production DL-104 so the model number was carried over.

DAMN and double DAMN! This is already on page 24 as the DL-109.5! O. K. - the DL-109.5 has the "later"
unique DL-109.5 lead truck for higher speeds! The DL-104 has a the standard ALCo two-axle truck.
(04 Jul 2017)

ALCo built 23 A1A-A1A trucked FCA-3s for Pakistan Railways in 1951 and 1953, equivalent to an FPA-2 riding on A1A trucks. ALCo then built its "World Locomotive", the
DL-500, introduced in 1953, as a demonstrator based on the FA-2, utiliing the 1,600HP 244 engine; later DL-500s were like the FPA-4 and utilized the 1,800HP ALCo 251B.
All DL-500s were built with C-C trucks, but B-B or paired A-1-A trucks were offered as an option.
(04 Jul 2017)
Here's a later three-trucker:
(04 Jul 2017)

Because of the high speeds asked of the UP's 9000 4-12-2s, coal starvation became a distinct possibility at top speed, so the UP turned to the Berlinerwerke for suggestions.
George Ersatz instantly thought of a way to improve coal distribution and sat down with his brother, Ira, to work out details. These included a bigger tender from
the Big Boy, a centipede, and heavier stoker coal handling nozzles for better placement and faster firing. The extra weight of this latter feature necessitated a
heavier, two-axle trailing truck, also from the Big Boy. With diesels rapidly displacing steam, nothing came of all this (so, what's new?) but, fortunately for us,
Ira's original tracing survives:
(03 Jul 2017)

[Strictly speaking, this SHOULD have been on the preceeding page, so I put it there as well.] (23 Feb 2018)

These BW files are truly inexhaustible!

Elsewhere on this site [the Berlinerwerke-PRR GG1 Apocrypha, et seq.], I cite Peter Cornéer's fabulous
railroad drawings but, other than the derivative GG1 drawings by Jeff Delhaye and me, I never really got into Peter's other work. More's the pity; his drawings
are incredible and the site is well worth your while to visit! As a case in point, his tiny Swedish SJ class OC electric caught my eye and, running it through the
Berlinerwerke Art Dept. file search elicited this half-size version, the OC½:
(04 Jul 2017)

The exceedingly-heavy freight of WWII appeared to demand an even heavier locomotive than the Q2 and so the PRR, working with the Berlinerwerke, developed this design,
coupled to an even-heavier 280P84 tender. ALCo-licensed lateral motion devices on the outer axles allowed the monster to handle standard Pennsy curvature but she
could only turn on wyes, being too long for eastern turntables. Wartime demands kept this on the drawing board but the story was that as soon as critical materials
became available after V-J Day, a prototype was built by the Altoona shops. No one I knew could confirm this until we found a builder's photo in the capacious BW
archives:

There never seems to be any end to the surprises that turn up when one looks hard enough, eh? Unfortunately, nothing came of this project, either, as dieselization
doomed the entire Q2 fleet, prototype #6131 and all 25 production units, after only a few years use and the Q3, immensly capable as she was, was scrapped along with them.

It seems that the engineering team at the PRR also envisioned a 4-8-8-4, a sort-of-Duplex-Big-Boy, while they were at it:

I saw on some site or other a comment that the Pennsy Garratt styled after the Loewy T1, as shown on BW Apocrypha Page 21, wasn't
practical because of the usual Garratt problem that, as the fuel and water are used up, the available tractive effort decreases. What the gentle reader failed to
grasp was that the picture shown there was of the basic locomotive. It had actually been redesigned to remove the streamlining of the rear cowl and add a
Berlinerwerke Multiplex System auxiliary canteen:
(10 Jun 2018)

The BW/Ersatz Multiplex System auxiliary canteen assures that the loco weight stays constant on the drivers by supplying make-up water and fuel oil. Electrically-
driven pumps controlled automatically by level sensors in the loco tanks keep loco weight constant. Conveniently, the huge, streamlined 250P84 16-wheel tender from
the ill-fated S1 6-8-6 was available for this purpose and the above photo was taken before the tender was repainted.

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I have a new e-acquaintance with some rather interesting ideas; he is Julian Ackerman of White Lion Railways, and he has already prompted me to dislodge new material by Ira Ersatz from the
Berlinerwerke files. It seems that George was visiting Krupp when they were working on the CEBX 800 880-ton Schnabel car for ASEA-Brown-Boveri's
Combustion Engineering. Always on the lookout for opportunities for the Berlinerwerke, George hit on a novel way (articulation) to double the capacity of the car in less than double the length;
Ira jumped on the idea with this 1,760-ton, 56-axle result:
(20 Oct 2018)

This made me look even further and I came up with this 186' drawbar-coupled double whale-belly tanker which the Ersatzs proposed to Texaco but they didn't like it (neither do I - but please don't
blame Julian):
(21 Oct 2018)

Well, George and Ira went back to the drawing board and came up with an articulated version with a monster span-bolstered center truck and inwardly-elongated center sections adding some 10% to the
volumetric capacity:

Texaco was thrilled and ordered Union Tank Car Co. to build a prototype for testing. Unfortunately for the Berlinerwerke and for Union, giant tank cars went out of stye and nothing more came of this
effort.

Julian also egged me on to find something new and different about the GG1-themed Pennsy Viewliner, so take a look there at the Pennsy Viewliner Two!
(23 Oct 2018)

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More to follow.

[Are you SURE you know what "APOCRYPHA" means?]

As always, you know you can count on the BW to find totally-unbelievable info.

- Any attempt to inject an element of reason into this series of pages will be forcibly rejected!

I always wondered at the incredibly tight security at the Berlinerwerke during WWII; now it can be told! See, for starters, the wild site of Sig Case,
Rails to the Stars - Steam in Space, files from the National Aeronautics and Steam Administration
and the tie-in to the Berlinerwerke V1 on Apocrypha Page 2.

If you like this sort of nonsense, take a gander at Jim Wells' incredible Whitby Locomotive Works;
Jim's overall Fantasonics "Model Railroad Magic Website" has become too complex for me to navigate. Unfortunately, the AW NUTS Magazine, site of the
A.W. N.U.T.S. Garden Railway Society is no longer available, nor are Lion Air (I'd be Lion if I didn't warn you to keep your tongue in your cheek on this one!)
or D. Dickens' The Patiala State Monorail Tramway site (whooie - and it's for real)!

LEGACY

What happens to all this when I DIE or (heaven forfend!)
lose interest? See LEGACY.